The Internet Explorer team, even during a full-scale dash towards IE10, is pushing IE9 on the enterprise with every ounce of PR muscle it has. The groupcommissioned a Forrester studyto track what the benefits and costs involved with a company moving to Internet Explorer 9. As the study was paid for by Microsoft, it is hard to take its every word as gospel, to put it mildly, but there were a few interesting bits in the results that are worth discussion....

Now that theMango update is out, and its future descendants Tango and Apollo are (presumably) under construction, exactly what Microsoft will add to its Windows Phone platform next is a perfectly fine thing to speculate upon. But as it turns out, we might have a better inkling as to what is coming than we initially supposed. Microsoft hasput together a suggestion platform, and is soliciting information from the ‘crowd’ (remember when that was a hot term?...

Microsoft stuck its neck out when it released a very early build of Windows 8 to the world, likely knowing beforehand the level of complaint that it was going to receive from users who did not appreciate the changes implemented. But the company wanted to solicit early feedback to ensure that at launch, the product would not flop. In a way, with the updates coming in Windows 8 being as dramatic as they are, Microsoft nearly had to get code out early to gauge reaction over its direction....

Now that Mango is adone deal from Microsoft’s perspectivewhile phones running the software are for sale in several countries, Microsoft has turned its attention back to its mobile developer community. The company todayannounced a smallbut important tweak to its app update process rules that should assuage any discontent that had arisen from a past mistake. Previously, Microsoft stated that once a developer submitted a Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) version of their application, the 7....

Even asWindows 8andspecial treatshave taken center stage over the past several press cycles, the Windows Phone team continues to plug along, releasing news of the forthcoming mobile operating system update at a leisurely pace. Today at Gamescom in Germany,Microsoft outlinedfour new features that will come in Mango, and detailed 14 LIVE games that are forthcoming as well. Previously, we had written a post entitled “All the coming WP7 Games Hub updates detailed,” in which we thought that we had covered all the games-related Mango news....